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Around the World in 80 Days

decided to wait several hours; and, as he was sauntering
along, it occurred to him that he would seem rather too
well dressed for a wandering artist. The idea struck him to
change his garments for clothes more in harmony with his

project; by which he might also get a little money to
satisfy the immediate cravings of hunger. The resolution
taken, it remained to carry it out.
It was only after a long search that Passepartout
discovered a native dealer in old clothes, to whom he
applied for an exchange. The man liked the European
costume, and ere long Passepartout issued from his shop
accoutred in an old Japanese coat, and a sort of one-sided
turban, faded with long use. A few small pieces of silver,
moreover, jingled in his pocket.
Good!’ thought he. ‘I will imagine I am at the
Carnival!’
His first care, after being thus ‘Japanesed,’ was to enter
a tea-house of modest appearance, and, upon half a bird
and a little rice, to breakfast like a man for whom dinner
was as yet a problem to be solved.
‘Now,’ thought he, when he had eaten heartily, ‘I
mustn’t lose my head. I can’t sell this costume again for
one still more Japanese. I must consider how to leave this

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